More San Fernando farmers benefit from Taiheiyo Cement’s goat raising program

PR 03/16/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Two years after Hunat Farmers Association (HFA) started raising goats for livelihood through the dispersal of offspring, 11 more members were added to the first batch of six members coming from the hinterlands…

With Rice Tariffication Law, NFA-7 to focus on farmers, rice production

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Farmers and rice production. These are the two areas that the National Food Authority in Central Visayas (NFA-7) will focus on with the loss of NFA’s regulatory functions following the signing into law…

Gov’t urged: Ease Rice Tariffication Law’s effects on farmers with programs to boost rice production

Rosalie O. Abatayo 02/17/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — While certain that the signing into law of the rice tariffication bill is a good sign for consumers, a local retailer’s group leader said the government should initiate improvements in local rice production in…

Christmas tree farmers combat popularity of artificial trees

AP 12/11/2018

Tualatin, Oregon — Rosa Villarreal’s three young sons jumped and ran around the field of Christmas trees like jackrabbits, their excitement palpable as they raced from evergreen to evergreen. The boys, ages 2, 4 and 6, were…

Why are our farmers still poor?

Fernando Fajardo 11/29/2018

We measure the success of agriculture programs by the increase in farm output, the increase in income of the farmers, and by the improvement in their well-being. It is now more than 70 years since independence and…

Rains damaged Taptap farmers crops

Cris Evert Lato-Rufollo 11/21/2018

Farmers in Barangay Taptap, Cebu City have expressed worry on the loss of their crops that were damaged by the rains brought about by Tropical Depression Samuel. Barangay Councilor Griffins Malazarte, whose family plants corn, said that…

Farmers’ Day opens at Cebu City Hall grounds

Morexette Erram 11/14/2018

Prizes await for the lucky farmers of Cebu City for this year’s Farmers’ Day. Officials of the Cebu City Government led the culmination of the event today at Plaza Sugbu wherein over 500 farmers, most of which…

Israelis to share expertise, new tech to Cebu farmers

Delta Dyrecka C. Letigio 10/30/2018

Israeli experts in agriculture and water technology will share their expertise to Cebuano farmers to help jump-start investment opportunities in the sector in Cebu City and the Cebu province. This is one of the plans agreed upon…

NBI ordered to probe killing of 9 Sagay farmers

Inquirer.net 10/23/2018

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to conduct an investigation into the killing of nine farmers in Sagay City, Negros Occidental. The attack on the farmers, which happened last Saturday, October…

Groups call to abolish TRAIN law

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/16/2018

Cause-oriented groups in Cebu call on the abolition of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law in line with the World Food Day. Angel Trocio of Gabriela Cebu said that the TRAIN law has contributed…

Australia’s strawberry crisis now tastes a little sweeter for farmers

AFP 09/24/2018

AUSTRALIA’s pins-in-punnets strawberry crisis prompted a spate of social-media driven hoaxes, but sites like Facebook and Twitter are also helping stir a revival in sales that has left some farmers struggling to meet resurgent demand. For almost…

Argao farmers’ daughter among 4 CNU students to get education aid from Cabinet spouses group

Delta Dyrecka C. Letigio USJ-R Journalism Intern 09/18/2018

A DAUGHTER of farmers from Argao town in southern Cebu will have a better shot at continuing her studies in Education after she was recognized as one of the four students of Cebu Normal University (CNU) to…

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